CELEBS/PARDONS/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender, a week after Kim Kardashian West pleaded her case during an Oval Office meeting with Trump. Johnson has already served 21 years of a life sentence after she was convicted on charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine and attempted possession of cocaine, according to the nonprofit Can-Do, which advocates for clemency for non-violent drug offenders. She is expected to be released from prison soon…Johnson’s commutation is the sixth act of clemency Trump has issued since taking office, and the second granted by Trump after a celebrity appealed to him. Last month, Trump posthumously pardoned the boxer Jack Johnson after the actor Sylvester Stallone raised his case with the President. Trump has pardoned Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, the conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, and Kristian Saucier, a Navy sailor who pleaded guilty to an unauthorized possession of classified information who argued he was held to a different standard than Hillary Clinton. Trump and Kardashian West met with Trump in the Oval Office last Wednesday [5-30-18] after she first reached out to Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump to help set up the meeting.”
-Jeremy Diamond and Kaitlan Collins, “Trump commutes sentence of Alice Marie Johnson,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 6, 2018 1:39 pm